A History of Queens: Rural County, Urban Borough – Book Talk

In celebration of the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler’s book Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens, his widow, the architect Laura Heim, will discuss the unique production process and engaging content of this first comprehensive history of the great borough of Queens. A former wetland, Queens today is a crowded cityscape of dense urban neighborhoods and suburban sprawl. Rural County, Urban Borough is a history of place, charting the rapid transformation of the Queens landscape, identifying what drove the borough’s development, from public infrastructure, architecture, and transportation to technological innovation and urban planning.